CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm and Longview Advisors, Inc., organizer of 3D CIC, announce that Henrik Weimer, Head of PLM Architecture & Innovation at Airbus, will kick-off PLM Road Map™ for the Aerospace & Defense Industry featuring 3D CIC with a keynote presentation that will take a look at the importance of open interoperability standards in today’s digital product definition. Due to significant growth and diversification in the aerospace industry, the typical OEM's role has been evolving over the last decades from a high degree of vertical integration, to a focus on product architecture and product integration. As a consequence, collaboration across companies has become a key success factor in today’s product development, requiring strong processes as well as method and tools integration. In his keynote address, “Digital Product Definition & Why Standards Matter,” Weimer will reflect on the challenges posed by this re-focus on

Weimer will discuss the importance of open interoperability standards in digital product definition. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 17 September 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm and Longview Advisors, Inc., organizer of 3D CIC, announce that Henrik Weimer, Head of PLM Architecture & Innovation at Airbus, will kick-off PLM Road Map™ for the Aerospace & Defense Industry featuring 3D CIC with a keynote presentation that will consider the importance of open interoperability standards in today’s digital product definition. Due to significant growth and diversification in the aerospace industry, the typical OEM's role has been evolving over the last decades from a high degree of vertical integration, to a focus on product architecture and product integration. As a consequence, collaboration across companies has become a key success factor in today’s product development, requiring strong processes as well as method and tools integration. In his keynote address, “Digital Product Definition &

Eight country-specific PLM market analysis reports now available ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 17 September 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of seven additional country-specific PLM Market Analysis Reports. These new reports follow the release of the 2015 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year. The CIMdata PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s analysis of the 2014 product lifecycle management (PLM) market. The complete global analysis provides CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across a variety of industry and geographic sectors, identifies market trends, reviews investments in PLM-related software and services during 2014, and forecasts PLM investments for 2015 through 2019. It includes charts that present the overall PLM market and its various sectors as defined by CIMdata. These include collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm), tools and tools sub-sectors, and digital manufacturing. In addition to its global reports, CIMdata now offers eight country-specific PLM Market Analysis Reports: Brazil China Germany India Japan Russia South Korea United States These

Trimble announced today a new version of Trimble Business Center software. Version 3.60 provides editing and quality control options for surveyors and GIS professionals, making them more efficient when working with GIS databases. The improved CAD and drafting tools allow CAD professionals to create final project deliverables within Trimble Business Center. The announcement was made today at INTERGEO 2015, the world's largest conference on geodesy, geoinformatics and land management. "Generating high-quality deliverables quickly is a key differentiator for survey and GIS professionals," said Alain Samaha , business area director of GIS and Software for Trimble's Geospatial Division. "Our latest office software release improves the efficiency in delivering results for GIS and CAD projects, integrates tightly with other key enterprise software packages and offers a single source for deliverable creation." Trimble Business Center version 3.60 increases productivity for surveyors and equips them with the tools to generate highly precise and accurate data. The software also offers the

Tecplot, Inc., developer of the leading visualization and analysis software for reservoir engineers, today announced the general availability of Tecplot RS 2015 Release 1. The most notable user-requested upgrades and productivity enhancements include: Bubble Plot Enhancements The new bubble plot enhancements allow users to present well-production data in 2D and 3D grid plots through pie-chart symbols. The user assigns well variables to be displayed as pie segments, whose size is based on the relative value. The size of the bubble can also be assigned to a production variable. Each variable may also be scaled independently to convert to consistent units. Interactive Equation Editor A new calculator-style equation editor simplifies creating and modifying sets of equations for derived variables. Complete equations, including the appropriate syntax, can be entered interactively by selecting functions and existing variables from supplied lists. Support for multi-reservoir NEXUS© models With the new release, it is now possible to load and display solutions for multi-reservoir models from NEXUS simulations. Multiple-reservoir grids

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced its agreement with AMD to provide comprehensive embedded Linux® tools for AMD 64-bit ARM®-based processors using the Mentor®Embedded Sourcery™ CodeBench Lite offering. To address the growing complexity of embedded systems, AMD embedded customers will have access to the Sourcery CodeBench technology for development and debugging applications for Linux®-based embedded systems. AMD and Mentor Graphics in 2014 agreed to create an embedded software ecosystem for developers to access powerful open-source, embedded C/C++ development tools to build embedded software in complex heterogeneous architectures based on AMD's 64-bit ARM-based processors. The AMD 64-bit ARM-based processors target next-generation embedded data center applications, communications and networking infrastructure, and industrial solutions. "Expanding our partnership with one of the largest independent embedded Linux and tool vendors in the market today is an exciting step forward as we continue to invest in the embedded market," said Scott Aylor, corporate vice president and general manager, AMD Embedded Solutions. "We

Delcam has launched the 2016 release of its FeatureCAM feature-based CAM software.  This includes a range of enhancements, in particular more options for the Vortex high-efficiency area-clearance strategy, support for bar-fed mills, more efficient turning and user-interface improvements to make programming even easier and faster. Full details on the new release, including video demonstrations of the main enhancements, are on the FeatureCAM Learning Zone – www.delcam.tv/fc2016/lz    FeatureCAM was the world’s first feature-based programming software when it was launched in 1995.  Constant development since then has ensured that the system has retained its leadership in programming speed and ease of use, while an increased range of strategies has been added to provide more efficient toolpaths that give greater productivity on a wider range of machinery, including mill-turn machines, five-axis mills and wire EDM equipment. The 2016 release includes a number of enhancements to the Vortex area-clearance strategy.  Vortex gives the fastest safe metal

Aras®, in partnership with Altium today announced a new approach to systems development that allows engineers working on complex products to access Altium PCB design data from within Aras Innovator®. By improving collaboration across electrical, mechanical, and software disciplines, Aras allows engineers to efficiently manage the product lifecycle from requirements through design, manufacture, and service.    With Aras Innovator connected to Altium Vault, the Altium centralized database for ECAD design data, global businesses can efficiently manage multidisciplinary bill of materials and enterprise-level configuration, change, and requirements management. This provides engineers with full product visibility, breaking down departmental and functional silos and enabling cross-discipline collaboration between mechanical, electrical, and software disciplines. “Electronics designers must worry not only about a PCB’s circuit design and layout, but also how it will fit into the design of the final product,” said Jason Hingston, CTO of Altium. “By connecting Altium to the Aras PLM solution, we are

Altium has announced the next major update to its flagship PCB design tool Altium Designer. According to the company, the addition of new automation and productivity tools to the package will allow engineers to get designs done more quickly and with fewer errors. “The increasing complexity of today’s electronic designs requires the most productive design environment for engineers to remain competitive,” said Christopher Donato, VP Americas at Altium. “Our focus for this release is to provide PCB designers with the most productive and efficient PCB design platform available to meet the demands of every engineering challenge.” Amongst the additions to the software are: an alternative part choice system, allowing designers to control their component selection process with backup part choices for manufacturing; visual clearance boundaries, allowing designers to understand the impact of their routing decisions in real-time; and a component placement system that allows organised and efficient board layouts to be created. “These

Dassault Systèmes and Deutsche Börse today announced the six finalists selected to participate in the 3D FinTech Challenge 2015, an immersive accelerator programme designed to empower and accelerate technology innovation within financial services. This year’s finalists focus on using existing or new disruptive data management technologies to help institutions better manage regulatory requirements and reduce the costs of compliance.  The 3D FinTech Challenge aims to nurture and accelerate the six high performance start-ups. The finalists - chosen from a shortlist of applications by a panel of senior executives from leading financial institutions - are AlgoDynamix, Athena Portfolio Solutions, CreditRecipient, Demaenova Informatics, Passfort and Quarule. Unlike other accelerator programmes, Dassault Systèmes and Deutsche Börse do not take equity in the start-ups but may consider investing in them, should there be a good business fit.  The Challenge, now in its third consecutive year, is led by Dassault Systèmes, world leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)